Janet Strachan

For 10 years Janet has drawn on her extensive teaching career and her Welsh background, to guide students through many excellent poetry and Shakespeare courses, culminating in her 2024 yearlong overview of Poetry Written In English. Her 14 courses have included: Under Milkwood, Dylan Thomas poetry, TS Eliot Wasteland, introductions to Eliot; Keats & Auden; and Introduction to Welsh Poetry.  Her most notable work was WW1 Poetry as part of U3AMC’s 2018 public event Remembering the Pity of War held at Deakin Edge. 

Her current survey of poetry excitingly introduces students to Indigenous and refugee poets with whom members are less familiar. 

Awarded 2024